I'm not so curious, you don't slaughter women and children or un-armed civilians, what ever the reasoning...The Butcher, may he rot in Hell, Sharon was reprimanded for allowing the Lebanese Phalange do the killing...
Come on MJ, even a Krusty right wing Zionist like you wouldn't condone killing innocents would you?
Maybe you would?
Sharon did not agree to Hobeika's men entering the camps for a massacre but to round up the remaining fighters and take them to the sports stadium. 200 enter the camps of more than 20,000 palestinians, engage in battle mostly around the gaza hospital that was heavily fortified, final death toll 460 over two days. Of the 35 women and children, most were rigged to be killed by their own, doors even baby mattresses were wired.
Enough weapons and ammo for several battalions were found in the camps.
Sharon might not have understood the complexities within the country, but then the Phalanges did not know Hobeika was getting his orders from Hardane or his role in the assassination of Bashir.
You want to blame Sharon, but what of the thousands in those camps that were killed by Syria and the Amal? You want to blind yourself to the responsibility of the palestinians and the brutality they waged on Lebanon? Of the massacres they carried out?
What happened came after more than seven years of blood war that ripped the country to shreds and that saw Arafat and most of PLO sail away to Tunisia, the same that Hussein kick out of Jordan for their attempted coup.
Phalangist might have acted to remove a threat to their country been it was Syria that was pulling the strings.